Posts from 2017

written by: Jorge Sayago-Gonzalez, M. Div., is the director of youth ministries at Second Presbyterian Church in Louisville, KY. He is a worship leader with special interest in multicultural, contemporary and emergent worship. With diversity growing at rapid rates, churches are now facing new challenges of engaging the ever-changing needs of their surrounding communities. […]

The Martha May Holman Scholarship Fund was established in 2002 by the SOAP (South Atlantic & Puerto Rico) Region of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators (APCE) to honor the life and ministry of Martha May Holman. Martha May Holman, a lifelong Presbyterian, served Christ with distinction as a church educator. Martha served a […]

WHAT IF you no longer had Sunday School Before Worship?* WE ARE in a church that lives between what was and what will be. How shall we “sing the Lord’s song” in this ever-changing landscape? Whatever answers we find, we know the answers will NOT Be found in a box of curriculum or In a closed off classroom or In […]

About seven years ago, Memphis Theological Seminary asked me to be their “artist-in-residence” for the year. Their ironic invitation made me laugh out loud. I am a third-generation Sybil; my mother and grandmother, for whom I am named, were fine artists–oil painters and sculptors. For me visual art has always been a source of deep […]

Laurie Farquharson loves her ministry as the long-time (27 years) Director of Christian Education at Wekiva Presbyterian Church PC(USA) in Longwood, FL. Laurie was a “home-grown” educator, receiving a call to ministry in her own local church after a short career in elementary education and years of church volunteer work. ​ She began as a cradle […]

God of new life, We give you thanks for this day: the first in a new year of life and faith. If we have learned from the lesson of years past, We can guess what this year might hold. There will be joy, and there will be heartbreak. There will be mistakes, and there will […]